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The FSC Plugin for QGIS v3

This is the help for version 3.n.n of the FSC QGIS plugin which is compatible with version 3.n.n of QGIS. If you want to see the help pages for version 2.8.0 of the plugin, which was the last release compatible with version 2.n.n of QGIS, then follow this link: FSC QGIS plugin for version 2 of QGIS.

The FSC QGIS plugin is designed to make working with biological records in QGIS much easier for UK users, e.g. by:

dealing with Ordnance Survey grid references,

dealing with data structured as biological records (who, what, where & when), and

visualising and downloading biological records from the NBN Atlas.

Although originally designed to be used in the UK context, many features of the FSC QGIS plugin are useful to international users of biological records too - especially the distribution atlas generation features which can be used with data encoded with any CRS.

If you find problems or bugs with the plugin, the very best way to report these is to raise an issue on the GitHub repository where the code for this tool is maintained: https://github.com/burkmarr/QGIS-Biological-Recording-Tools/issues. To raise an issue, you will need a GitHub login (free). Raising an issue automatically sends an email to Rich Burkmar.

The FSC QGIS plugin is installed from the QGIS plugin manager. When installed, you will find a TomBio productivity tools item on the Plugins menu and from this you can invoke each of the four Tom.bio tools as well as its options dialog. But usually a more convenient way of invoking the tools is from the TomBio toolbar.

There are four main tools and a fifth dialog for managing environment options. The help and info menu item links to this web page. Follow the links below for help on each of these.